Ripa Ladrang

'Discovery' Weekends: Come Garden with Us
2017-04-22 - 2017-04-23 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
with Nadya Grau, our Garden Fairy
Discover the Center and its volunteers on an active and collaborative day. We roll up our sleeves and participate in seasonal work while getting to know each other.
Meet at 10am
22/23 April *
Preparing the garden for spring
We are pleased to offer lunch to participants.
Registration: nadyafleur@gmx.ch
* Changes possible depending upon the weather

Meditation course based on the "Ripa Awareness Meditation" method
2017-05-13 - 2017-05-14 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
This workshop offers the possibility to use our inner resources of clarity, openness and wisdom by practicing awareness in the present moment. It is based on the “Ripa Awareness Meditation” method, developed around the Buddhist techniques of Shamatha Meditation which incorporates certains aspects of the Vipassana.
With Amrit Wagner, certifed instructor of the Ripa Awareness Meditation and meditator for over 25 years.
Normal price: 140 CHF / 130 € – Reduced price**: 110 CHF / 100 €

Nyung Ne Retreat – Tibetan fasting practice
2017-06-05 - 2017-06-10 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Initiation of Cherenzig on Monday, June 5th followed by the practice of Nyung Ne, a spiritual fasting practice in Tibetan Buddhism.
2 session pairs (from June 5 – 8 or from June 5 – 10)
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche, a highly accomplished master of practices in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism. The Second cycle is guided by Lama Tenzin Phuntsok.
Co-organized with Padma Ling Switzerland.
Full retreat: Normal price: 305 CHF / 280 € • Reduced price**: 240 CHF / 195 €

Saga Dawa - The Buddha Festival
2017-06-11 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Saga Dawa is a buddhist ceremony to commemorate the awakening of the Buddha. This festival will include a conference, guided meditations, discovery workshops and surprises for the children. A colorful program around the Buddha and Buddhist philosophy.

Cultivating mental and emotional well-being: a scientific and experimental approach
2017-06-16 - 2017-06-18 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
The “Wheel of Mental Balance” is a protocol founded by Diego Hangartner based on methods and techniques derived from classical Buddhist texts as well as neuroscience research. It demonstrates that the use of meditation in a modern context helps to profoundly to develop better attention and emotional well-being.
The program offers a wide variety of tools for a practical application of mindfulness in a broad, secular setting. This weekend training is created for the general public as well as professionals, who by nature encounter emotional challenges.
With Diego Hangartner, founder of the “Institute of Secular Ethics and Mental Balance” (Zurich)
Normal price: 290 CHF / 270 € Reduced price**: 250 CHF / 230 €

Qi GONG or The Way of Calmness
2017-06-24 - 2017-06-25 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
« Qi » is invisible and dynamic energy, the vital energy that keeps us alive. Qi Gong is a long-life technique that optimizes our energy potential and develops the body’s immune system.
A series of simple and slow movements provide well-being and serenity. Cultivating calmness and relaxation of the body, Qi Gong is a source of benefits, especially to correct the effects of stress. We will practice dynamic movements, static postures to strengthen Qi and meditations and relaxations. This energy practice will help unify your body, mind and breath.
With Agnès Cauquil-Moreau, certified teacher of the “Qi Gong Federation” and the
“Energetic Arts and the European Institute of Qi Gong”
Normal price: 140 CHF / 130 € Reduced price**: 110 CHF / 100 €

Summer Retreat - Feminity in Spirituality
2017-07-22 - 2017-08-06 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
2017 is the year of the universal feminine energy, represented in Tibetan Buddhism by the Guru of the Dakini. The Ripa International Center, which is particularly inspired by the Dakini Yéshé Tsogyal, will mark this exceptional year with a series of events dedicated to the study and celebration of the Dakini, or feminine principal and the role it plays in spiritual awakening.
July 22-23:
Public talk with Michaela Haas, author of the book “The Dakini Power” and workshop on how to harmonize masculine and feminine energies. Also featuring Lene Handberg and Semrig Thablam Rabjam, Psychotherapist U.D. (Unity in Duality) and Director of Education at the Tarab International Institute.
July 24 – 28:
Heart advice of Guru Rinpoche to Yeshe Tsogyal with His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Heart advice of Yeshe Tsogyal to his disciples with Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche.
29 July – 6 August:
Drupchö de Taksham Yéshé Tsogyal with His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche, preceded by the elaborated initiation of Taksham Yéshé Tsogyal Empowerment on July 29. (Initiation organized by the Tibetan community in Switzerland).

The Yoga of Sound
2017-09-30 - 2017-10-01 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Primordial sounds, mantras, sacred harmonies and songs of Tibetan monks, therapeutic sounds of shamans … practiced since the dawn of time, for their virtues or for their power, these sacred sounds have the ability to spark spiritual awakening.
With Mahaut Aeschlimann

Yogom® with François Bertolero
2017-10-13 - 2017-10-15 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
The targeted body and breathing exercises of YOGOM are a natural transition for the practice of sitting Shamatha meditation, connecting body and mind directly.

About the Teacher

François Bertolero
François Bertolero is a yoga teacher (F.F.Y. graduate), trained under the guidance of Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Yogi Bhajan. He completed further training in the Vinyasa ‘dynamic yoga’ method under Gérard Arnaud, which he taught for sixteen years. He has … More →

Awakening Presence in Relationships
2017-11-04 - 2017-11-08 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Florence Meleo-Meyer
Ripa International Center/Landguet Ried – Bern – Switzerland
Insight Dialogue meditation I Teachings I Noble Silence
About the retreat
As humans we are exquisitely sensitive, every moment awash in a sea of contact. Touching and being touched, feeling, perceiving, and thinking, we create our world. Can we cultivate awareness in these dynamic moments of contact? Is it possible that human relationships are one of the best fields for cultivating mindfulness? From birth, we have been designed for attunement with others. The absence of attunement is a significant source of stress. With the support of each other’s awareness and kind intention to pay attention the very act of communicating becomes an opportunity for awakening our inherent capacities for love, joy, and wisdom.
Based on the meditation practice of Insight Dialogue, the awareness, mental stability, and calmness associated with silent meditation are developed in practice with others. Seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, the heart and mind open, and greater mental flexibility develops.
Practicing with the six Insight Dialogue guidelines, one learns to pause out of the habit mind, notice tensions and relax, kindly accept present moment experience, open and trust emergence, and, listen deeply and speak the truth of our subjective experience. The three bases of Insight Dialogue, meditation, dharma and relationship form the foundation and path of transformation in the good company of other meditators.
This retreat combines silent practice with carefully guided Insight Dialogue meditation, Dharma talks, and time in nature, all within the container of noble silence.
About the teacher
Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, is director of Train the Trainer Program in Oasis Institute, Mindfulness- Based Professional Education and Training at the Center for Mindfulness, in Medicine, Healthcare and Society, (CFM) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During the retreat, Florence Meleo Meyer will be assisted by Silvia Wiesmann, co-director of the European Center for Consciousness (EZFA) in Freiburg, Germany ; and Geneviève Hamelet, founding member and president of the Association for the Development of Mindfulness in French-speaking countries.

A Dialogue with Dr. Richard Davidson
2017-12-01 - 2017-12-03 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Richard Davidson, researcher and author of numerous books, will visit our center for a multidisciplinary meeting to explore the intersections between meditation, health and well-being and the various ways in which this millennial practice can contribute to the creation of a more conscious and compassionate society; a special emphasis will be placed on the research carried out around meditation in the fields of education, health and business.
Dr. Richard Davidson is Founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, Massachussetts

Winter Retreat 2017
2017-12-26 - 2018-01-01 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
« Contemplation on the four thoughts that turn the mind from Samsara » With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Preliminary practices are the first step to the commencement of Dharma practice. The Tibetan term Ngöndro literally means “something that is placed before, that precedes”. Two kinds of preliminary practices can be found: the first is called common or ordinary and the second special or extraordinary.
Ordinary preliminaries consist of a series of deep reflections on “the four thoughts that help turn the mind.” They divert it from imprisonment in samsara and turn it toward the practice of Dharma.
This winter retreat in complete silence, will be the opportunity to plunge into the very foundations of Buddhist practice with the guidance of a highly qualified Master.
Normal price: 305 CHF / 280 € Reduced price**: 215 CHF / 195 €
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche, highly accomplished master of rituals in the Vajrayana Buddhism tradition, he was recognized as the reincarnation of Jigme Tempay Gyeltsen, the third Tamdrin Lhunpo Chogtrul.

The Way of Shamatha: Soothing the Body, Settling the Mind, and Illuminating Awareness
2018-01-22 - 2018-01-28 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Six Day Residential Retreat with Dr. B. Alan Wallace
During this retreat, we will explore in theory and practice a range of methods for developing meditative quiescence, or shamatha. We will begin with the practice of mindfulness of the breathing as taught by the Buddha, which is an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind. We will then explore an approach to shamatha that is particularly pertinent for Dzogchen practice, called “settling the mind in its natural state,” as taught by the nineteenth-century Dzogchen master Lerab Lingpa in his commentary to the Heart Essence of Vimalamitra. Finally, we will engage in the practice of “shamatha without signs” as taught by Padmasambhava in his classic terma Natural Liberation. Although this subtle practice is taught explicitly as a means of achieving shamatha, Padmasambhava comments that it may even result in a realization of rigpa, or pristine awareness. The achievement of shamatha is widely regarded in the Buddhist tradition as an indispensable foundation for the cultivation of contemplative insight (vipashyana), and this retreat is designed to provide students with a sufficient theoretical understanding and a basis in experience to enable them to proceed effectively toward this extraordinary state of mental and physical balance.
Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind.
Dr. Wallace, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford.
With his unique background, Alan brings deep experience and applied skills to the challenge of integrating traditional Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with the modern world.

Losar Festivities
2018-02-18 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
The New Year is always an important date in all cultures. For Tibetans, in addition to the family and festive aspects, Losar is a unique opportunity to promote an auspicious interdependence for the new cycle to come.
Includes a Lhasang fire puja to celebrate the start of the Tibetan New Year,
Lhasang fire puja at 10 am, followed by lunch
Free entrance
More info: info@ripa-international.com

Tai Chi Workshop with Dechen Shak-Dagsay
2018-03-16 18:00 - 2018-03-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
In this practice, a lot of importance is attached to a conscious calm breathing; these slowly executed exercises create an immediate rest for body and mind.
Practicing these popular 18 episodes of Tai Chi / Qi Gong is also suitable for people who want to have a balance to the hectic everyday life at the workplace.
Dechen Shak-Dagsay discovered Chinese movement theory and the healing art of Tai Chi and Qi Gong 20 years ago. She was fascinated and decided to train as a teacher with Foen Tjoeng Lie, the famous German living chinese master. Dechen is the eldest daughter of Dagsay Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama, from whom she has also received the transmissions of the healing mantras that she now sings for a worldwide audience.
Normal price: 210 CHF / 180 Eur
Reduced price: 190 CHF / 165 Eur
Programme starts on Friday at 6 pm and ends on Saturday at 5 pm
Event organized by Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center
More info & registration: info@landguet.ch

Detox Yoga: Hatha Yoga – Yin Yoga – Meditation Workshop
2018-03-24 10:00 - 2018-03-25 16:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Hatha Yoga – Yin Yoga – Meditation Workshop
Juice detox and healthy and balanced vegetarian cooking
Spring is the perfect time to purify our bodies and promote renewal. Postures of Hatha yoga will be practiced to purify and strengthen the body and stimulate the digestive system. Yin yoga practice helps activate the liver and gallbladder meridians (organs related to Spring). A detox juice and balanced and healthy vegetarian cuisine workshop will enable participants to discover the keys to healthy nutrition.
In a weekend, top up your energy and vitality levels by ridding the body of its toxins and lighten the mind of its preoccupations. Leave lighter, serene and regenerated.
With Cynthia Jouffre, a trained dancer, a practitioner of Hatha Yoga and Yoga of Energy, an advanced student of Boris Tatzky and founder of her own school of Yoga in Rixheim, France.
And Christophe Jouffre, chef and culinary coach for more than 25 years, he is also a sophrologist, hypnotherapist and specialist in the treatment of tinnitus.
Normal price: 160 CHF / 140 Eur
Reduced price: 150 CHF / 130 Eur
Programme starts on Saturday at 10 am and ends on Sunday at 4 pm
Event organized by Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center
More info & registration: info@landguet.ch

A Dialogue with Dr. Richard Davidson
2018-04-10 09:00 - 20:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Richard Davidson, internationally renowned researcher and author of numerous books, will visit our center for a multidisciplinary meeting to explore the intersections between meditation, health and well-being and the various ways in which this millennial practice can contribute to the creation of a more conscious and compassionate society. A special emphasis will be placed on the research carried out around meditation in the fields of education, health and business.
Keynote and panels with various actors in the education, health and business areas.
Dr. Richard Davidson, is an internationally renowned neuroscientist, author of numerous books and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds in Madison, USA.
Normal price: 250 CHF
Reduced price: 210 CHF
Programme starts at 9 am and ends at 8 pm. Possibility to stay overnight.
Event organized by Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center
More info & registration: https://www.landguet.ch/richard-davidson/

The Way of the Boddhisattva: Patience With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche.
2018-04-21 10:00 - 2018-04-22 16:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Shantideva’s text, the Bodhicharyavatara, is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. According to Shantideva‘s text “there is no worse non-virtue than anger and no better ascetic practice than patience,” taming our anger through the practice of patience is known to be the sublime practice of the Boddhissatva.
During this weekend, Rinpoche will guide us through this classic text, with a particular emphasis on the chapter of patience.
Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche is a highly accomplished master of rituals in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, he is recognized as the reincarnation of Jigme Tempay Gyeltsen, the third Tamdrin Lhunpo Chogtrul.
Normal price: 180 CHF / 155 Eur
Reduced price: 160 CHF / 140 Eur
Programme starts on Saturday at 10 am and ends on Sunday at 4 pm
Possibility to stay overnight
Registration: info@ripa-international.com / download regform when ready

Yoga workshop: Reconnecting with your Inner Source with Philippe Beer Gabel
2018-05-04 17:00 - 2018-05-06 16:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
This workshop is an intensive and introspective voyage through the practices of Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra. These two deep and subtle practices will be the occasion to meet unexplored spaces in your body and mind. It is a journey in itself accompanied by the unique sound of Kantélé, a Finnish harp composed of 38 piano strings and the prosody of Philippe’s voice.
Philippe Beer Gabel became a Yoga teacher in 2014 following a 200h Yoga Alliance training in Hatha and Ashtanga in Rishikesh, India; he then trained at Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark in Vancouver, Canada and with Uma Dinsmore Tuli in Yoga Nidra. He has recently completed his training with alternative medicine protocols such as the Body Talk System and Reiki. He teaches in French and English and is committed to promoting Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra internationally.
Normal price: 290 CHF / 260 Euros
Reduced price: 270 CHF / 240 Euros
Programme starts on Friday at 5 pm and ends on Sunday at 4 pm
Event organized by Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center
More info & registration: info@landguet.ch

Ripa Awareness Meditation With Amrit Wagner
2018-05-05 10:00 - 2018-05-06 16:00
By befriending feelings, sensations, thoughts and behavioural patterns without denying or judging them, the way is paved for acceptance of one’s self and others.
This workshop offers the possibility to experiment with our inner resources of clarity, openness and wisdom through the practice of attention in the present moment. It is based on the “Ripa Awareness Meditation” method, developed by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche around the Buddhist techniques of Shamatha, as well as incorporating certain aspects of Vipassana.
Amrit Wagner is a certified instructor of the Ripa Awareness Meditation method and meditator for over 25 years.
Normal price: 160 CHF / 140 Eur
Reduced price: 150 CHF / 130 Eur
Programme starts on Saturday at 10 am and ends on Sunday at 4 pm
Registration: info@ripa-international.com / download regform when ready

The Art of Meditation With Matthieu Ricard
2018-05-06 18:00 - 21:30 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Matthieu Ricard will talk about how the practice of meditation can change the understanding of one’s self and the world. His explanations will guide participants through the theory, spirituality and practical aspects of deep contemplation. Through his experience as a monk, his close reading of sacred texts and his deep knowledge of the Buddhist masters, Matthieu Ricard reveals the significant benefits that meditation – based on selfless love and compassion – can bring to each of us.

This public talk will be followed by the official opening of a photograph exhibition by Matthieu Ricard.
The proceeds of both the public talk and the photo exhibition will support the actions of Karuna – Matthieu Ricard’s humanitarian organization – and the Ripa International Center – a Nyingma Buddhist Center under the spiritual guidance of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche – committed to preserving and spreading the teachings of the Buddha for the benefits of all sentient beings.
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author, translator, and photographer. He first visited India in 1967 where he met great spiritual masters from Tibet. After completing his Ph.D. degree in cell genetics in 1972, he moved to the Himalayan region where he has been living for the past 45 years.
Different prices categories – please check our website
Programme starts at 6 pm and ends at 9:30 pm – possibility to stay overnight (www.landguet.ch)
Registration: info@ripa-international.com / ticket taylor link coming soon

Meditation retreat with Patricia and Charles Genoud
2018-05-18 19:00 - 2018-05-21 16:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
This residential retreat is dedicated to an intensive practice of meditation and will take place in silence. This means that there is no verbal contact with the other participants and no use of mobile phones.
It is intended for beginners and people who want to deepen their practice.
Sitting periods of meditation will alternate with walking meditation.
Every day there will also be an hour of meditation in action.
Patricia Genoud-Feldman has practiced and studied Buddhist meditation in Asia and the West since 1984. She has been teaching Vipassana practice since 1997 in Europe, Israel and the USA. Patricia was trained at the Insight Meditation Society under the direction of Joseph Goldstein, in Insight Dialogue with Gregory Kramer and in MBSR in Worcester – MA.
Charles Genoud has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism since 1970. He studied with the venerable Geshe Rabten for several years, then with Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche. He also attended the School of Dialectics in Dharamsala in 1975. He has also practiced Theravada Buddhism in Burma and the United States. Charles studied Sensory Awareness which greatly influenced his research on meditation in motion. He has developed the approach called “Gesture of Awareness.” He has been teaching Vipassana meditation since 1995.
Both Charles and Patricia are the co-founders of the Vimalakirti Meditation Centre in Geneva, Switzerland
Dana-based programme – fees apply to accommodation and food, check on www.landguet.ch
Programme starts on Friday at 7 pm and ends on Monday at 4 pm
Event organized by Vimalakirti Center in collaboration with Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center
More info & registrations: http://www.vimalakirti.org/stages-residentiels/

Tibetan Fasting Ritual, Nyung Né With Lama Tenzin Phuntsok
2018-05-25 18:00 - 2018-05-28 09:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
A traditional spiritual fasting ritual which aims at purifying old behavioural patterns, providing practitioners with the opportunity to release emotional blockages, to replenish psychological resources, and to accelerate spiritual growth.
Lama Tenzin Phuntsok, the resident lama of the Ripa lineage in Europe. He is an accomplished master of initiation rituals of Vajrayana Buddhism, and head of the RIPA translation committee, responsible for translating the Tibetan texts of the Ripa lineage.
Normal price: 180 CHF / 160 CHF
Reduced price: 155 Eur / 140 Eur
Requirements: having taken refuge in the Three Jewels
Co-organized with Padma Ling Switzerland
Programme starts on Friday 25 at 6 pm and ends on Monday 28 at 9 am
Registration: info@ripa-international.com / download regform when ready

Sagadawa, Buddha’s Day With Lama Tenzin Phuntsok
2018-05-29
Buddha Day ceremony and celebrations with Lama Tenzin Phuntsok, followed by lunch.

Registration: info@ripa-international.com

Free entry – Lunch prices: www.landguet.ch

Five-week Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training with Alan Wallace and Eve Ekman
2018-06-19 - 2018-07-23 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
This evidence-based training was developed at the request of the Dalai Lama after a Mind and Life Institute meeting on “Destructive Emotions” led by renowned emotion psychologist Paul Ekman and eminent Buddhist scholar, writer, and teacher B. Alan Wallace.
The secular curriculum for this workshop was designed to bring participants a rich and in-depth understanding of their own emotional lives and guide them towards their overarching goals of a meaningful life. It draws from Western and Eastern contemplative-informed skills delivered through lectures, small group workshops, and guided instruction for personal reflection and direct experience.
Alan Wallace, Ph.D in Religious Studies, scientist, Tibetan translator and author of numerous books. He is also a fully trained Buddhist monk, ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Alan is constantly searching for new ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with western scientific methods.
Eve Ekman is a stress, emotion, and empathy postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco’s Osher Center of Integrative Medicine. The daughter of Paul Ekman, a pioneering founder of the field of emotion research, Eve is an internationally sought-after trainer of emotion regulation and mindfulness skills.
More info & applications: http://www.sbinstitute.com/node/2086
Event organized by the Santa Barbara Institute for Conciousness Studies in collaboration with Landguet Ried, home of the Ripa International Center

Summer Retreat 2018: Life, Death and Rebirth – A Buddhist Perspective With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
2018-07-27 - 2018-08-04 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Summer Retreat 2018 : 27th July – 18th August
Module 1 : 27th July – 2nd August Life, death and rebirth: a Buddhist perspective
Based on the traditional Tibetan teachings of the Bardo Thödol with Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Module 2 : 4th – 10th August Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
Module 3 : 10th – 18th August Hayagriva Drupchö (7 days)
Led by Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche, in the presence of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
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Module 1 :
27th July – 2nd August Life, death and rebirth: a Buddhist perspective
Based on the traditional Tibetan teachings of the Bardo Thödol
with Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
During this week of teachings, Rinpoche will describe the process of death and the various stages of the Bardo, and will give practical advice on how to best prepare for our own death as well as how to best accompany the dying.
According to the Buddhist notions of impermanence and change, death is a part of the natural process of birth, old-age, death and rebirth; it is not considered to be the end of life, but merely the demise of the body we inhabit. Our mind stream remains and seeks out – through the craving of attachment – a new body, a new life. What that new life will be is determined by our past actions…
Provided that we have familiarized ourselves with the true nature of our mind through meditative practice, the moment of death is a great opportunity to recognize our inherent clear light and merge with it, hence attaining liberation.
Arrival of participants on Friday, 27th July at 4 pm
3rd August Shitro Puja: 100 peaceful and wrathful deities puja
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
Shitro refers to the 42 peaceful and 58 wrathful deities. From an absolute point of view, these lie within our mind stream. By familiarizing ourselves with them through the practice of the Shitro puja, it becomes easier to recognize them at the moment of death, and to seize this opportunity to merge with our Buddha nature.
4th August Shitro Empowerment
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
Receiving the Shitro empowerment purifies broken Samayas (practice commitments) and helps one go through the Bardo stages without fear and in full trust of recognizing the 100 peaceful and wrathful deities. It is said that even hearing the name of the 100 deities closes the door to rebirth in lower realms.
Tertön Karma Lingpa discovered the Shitro terma which is widely practiced by the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Lingdro dances, with the Swiss Tibetan Lingdro group
Programme ends on Saturday, 4th August at 6 pm
Programme from 27th July till 4th August open to all
Possibility to attend on Friday, 3rd and Saturday, 4th August (2 days) or to attend on 3 August or 4 August (1 day) separately from the rest of the programme.
More info: info@ripa-international.com
Official registrations will open soon. Check out our website regularly for updates.

Summer retreat 2018: Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days) With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
2018-08-04 17:00 - 2018-08-10 17:00
Summer retreat 2018 : 27th July – 18th August
Module 1 : 27th July – 2nd August Life, death and rebirth: a Buddhist perspective
Based on the traditional Tibetan teachings of the Bardo Thödol with Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Module 2 : 4th – 10th August Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
Module 3 : 10th – 18th August Hayagriva Drupchö (7 days)
Led by Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche, in the presence of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
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Module 2
4th – 10th August Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
“Drupchö“ means “Great Accomplishment“ in Tibetan and is one of the most elaborate forms of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. It offers participants the unique opportunity to focus the body, speech and mind on spiritual activity, the source of merit and achievement on the path to enlightenment.
Through the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö, practitioners invite the healing energy of the wisdom deity and her Mandala. This ritual allows practitioners to create a space where one can dissolve all mental disturbances in order to reveal their inherent quality of creativity and joy.
Arrival of participants on August 4th August at 5 pm
Programme ends on Friday, 10th August after lunch
Requirements: having taken refuge in the Three Jewels and Yeshe Tsogyal empowerment
More info: info@ripa-international.com
Official registrations will open soon. Check out our website regularly for updates.

Summer retreat 2018: Hayagriva Drupchö (7 days) With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
2018-08-10 16:00 - 2018-08-18 18:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
August 10 – 18, 2018
Summer retreat 2018 : 27th July – 18th August
Module 1 : 27th July – 2nd August Life, death and rebirth: a Buddhist perspective
Based on the traditional Tibetan teachings of the Bardo Thödol with Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Module 2 : 4th – 10th August Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
Module 3 : 10th – 18th August Hayagriva Drupchö (7 days)
Led by Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche, in the presence of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
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Module 3
10th – 18th August Hayagriva Drupchö (7 days)
Led by Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche, in the presence of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Hayagriva is the main Yidam of the Ripa lineage. A wrathful manifestation of Chenrezig, it belongs to the Padma family and it is recognized for its powerful magnetizing activity. Participating in a Hayagriva Drupchö helps dispel obstacles and heal Naga-provoked sicknesses, such as skin ailments.
Guru Padmasambava received this teaching from the great Indian Mahasiddha Nagarjuna and transmitted it to the King Trisong Deutsen of Tibet in the 8th century, as well as to his twenty-five disciples. At that time, the teaching was concealed in a rock located in Gawalung, in Pemakö as a Terma teaching. The mind of Arya Tsale, one of Guru Rinpoche’s main disciples, was blessed as the main recipient of this Terma teaching.
Taksham Nüden Dorje, a reincarnation of Arya Tsale, discovered the Terma in 1688, and accomplished its essence through intensive practice. Choje Lingpa and Thutop Lingpa, Tertöns themselves, received the practice from Taksham Nüden Dorje; the practice has been transmitted in an uninterrupted manner until the present day, through His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche.
Arrival of participants on August 10th at 4 pm
Programme ends on Saturday, 18th August at 6 pm
Requirements: be a member of the Ripa Sangha
More info: info@ripa-international.com
Official registrations will open soon. Check out our website regularly for updates.

Learn to Meditate – Shamata (Shiné)
2018-09-01 - 2018-10-31 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Amrit Wagner
there is an ongoing practice for students of all levels, newcomers and long time students alike, at the Ripa International Center. The practice is led by Amrit Wagner, an approved meditation instructor under the guidance of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche. For more information on the weekly Shiné sittings, please contact: info@ripa-international.com

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION: “The only way to know mind and to attain wisdom is through meditation. In repose, in space, in silent time, answers can come. Wisdom and insight wash away problems. Transformation occurs in stillness. Through the practice of mindfulness, the elementary harmony that creates wind horse – the Tibetan expression for positive energy – is created. Relaxation will then translate into everyday life and bring benefits. Internal change will bring external change. When we are clear and equipped with insight, we are in a place to help others. It is by developing wisdom and compassion that we are able to be of the greatest assistance to others…. compassion heals.” – Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

About the Teacher

Amrit Wagner
Amrit Wagner is an approved meditation instructor under the guidance of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.

BBTR Yoga Fusion – Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release, Infused with Different Yogic Techniques to Prepare the Body for Deep Breathing
2018-09-28 08:00 - 2018-09-30 17:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
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Using specific yoga poses from kundalini and Hatha yoga we will prepare the body and use powerful BBTR tools to unlock stored emotions and unresolved traumas.
These practices are used to help assist our human journey and to follow our dreams, to clarify our life’s mission and purpose by clearing inner spaces, and to ultimately find the expression of our voice and potential.
It is said that 90% of our pains, stresses, anxieties are linked to stuck emotions and unresolved trauma from the developmental and embryonic stages, and from the different life experiences from birth to adulthood.
During this retreat you will be able to increase your general awareness of the emotions stored in the body, by allowing the yoga practice and powerful breathing approach to stimulate any stagnant areas in the physical body and subtle spaces and to allow your vital energy to flow.
We will use yoga poses to open the body and target the practice to increase the vibration of the chakras, using a fluid kundalini practice working from the root chakra up to the crown chakra. With specific hatha yoga poses we will ground and find balance and harmonise our mind and body.
BBTR has a potential to release the effects of long unresolved traumas, thus supporting general healing of our physical organism and psyche. Breath work can prevent an onset of debilitating and potentially life-threatening trauma-related diseases. Conscious use of breath by many existing breathwork modalities can help individuals to live with vitality and radiant health.
Breathwork is a general term describing numerous available modalities that use the breath as a main tool for exploring alternate states of consciousness, meditation as well as in therapy.
People around the world, seeing the power of it, have used breath as a healing tool since ancient times. Even Latin words for breath and spirit are the same. Breathwork utilizes conscious manipulation or controlling of breathing patterns to achieve a certain desired results. The amounts of O2 and CO2 we take in, expel or maintain in our blood levels have direct effect of on our physical bodies and well-being. Various breathwork modalities make use of scientific information available to us about effects of levels oxygenation on our organism. These modalities utilize special breathing techniques, which support increasing or decreasing levels of oxygen in our body to achieve a desired result.
A direct connection between our breath and our emotional responses is utilized by many existing Breathwork modalities. Many modern body-oriented psychotherapy modalities, such as Bioenergetic Therapy founded by Alexander Lowen, as well as mainstream therapies rooted in foundation of the work of famous body-oriented psychologist Wilhelm Reich use breath as one of their main tools.
DANIEL ANNER
I discovered Iyengar Yoga in San Francisco in 2002 after my studies in psychology. Since then, I practiced different styles of yoga and trained annually with different world renown teachers in Ashtanga, Iyengar and Kundalini Yoga.
Since 2005, I taught in many different institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, the Four Seasons Hotel, the UNHCR, a private clientele, at the Geneva International School. I also teach at festivals in Chamonix, Bali and Barcelona, and am also dedicated to teach people in need as well as parents and children. Since 2007, I have been training in Thai Massage, Osteothai, AcroYoga, Craniosacral and Breathwork. I love to learn about healing, for myself and to help others find their way.
In 2010 I founded the Geneva Yoga Festival and helped launch different festivals in Geneva and Paraty in Brazil.
I am fully dedicated to spreading my passion for holistic health and therapies, and have organized many events for the last 10 years.
I am changing my direction to focus on working deeply with people using yoga, craniosacral therapy and BBTR approach in the form of individual sessions, teaching collective groups and in festivals to follow my journey as a yogic healer, letting go of the organiser hat.
I look forward to share my skills with you during this intensive and transformative weekend.
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Normal price: 301 USD / 260 Euros
Reduced price: 278 USD / 240 Euros
